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In Spite of Ourselves (John Prine Cover)

by Lampe

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The coronavirus crisis took a brilliant musician and storyteller from us.

My wife Alex showed me this song around the time we met. It has been one of our favorites to sing together ever since. We recorded this sometime in 2017, and with the recent news of John Prine's passing, we thought we would release it as a small tribute to his music and memory.

This cover version recorded October 2017 in Mannheim, Germany
Mixing and mastering by Julian Heyden

Watch our tribute video on YouTube! (youtu.be/L_Cp-vS-Pns)

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She don't like her eggs all runny
She thinks crossin' her legs is funny
She looks down her nose at money
She gets it on like the Easter Bunny
She's my baby, I'm her honey
I'm never gonna let her go

He ain't got laid in a month of Sundays
Caught him once and he was sniffin' my undies
He ain't too sharp but he gets things done
Drinks his beer like it's oxygen
He's my baby, I'm his honey
I'm never gonna let him go

In spite of ourselves we'll end up a-sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds, honey we're the big door-prize
We're gonna spite our noses right off of our faces
There won't be nothin' but big ol' hearts dancin' in our eyes

She thinks all my jokes are corny
Convict movies make her horny
She likes ketchup on her scrambled eggs
Swears like a sailor when she shaves her legs
She takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'

I'm never gonna let her go
He's got more balls than a big brass monkey
A whacked-out weirdo and a love bugged junkie
Sly as a fox crazy as a loon
Payday comes and he's a-howlin' at the moon
He's my baby, I don't mean maybe
I'm never gonna let him go

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released April 16, 2020
'In Spite of Ourselves' written by John Prine and orginally performed with Iris DeMent. This album was John Prine's 13th studio album and was released in 1999 on Oh Boy records. Produced by John Prine and Jimmy Rooney.

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Unpraktische Post-Slacker mit tollen Ideen, sprühendem Pop-Appeal und
einem Melancho-Songwriting, als hätte Dirk von Lowtzow sich mit
Rainald Grebe auf Lachgas gepaart. Gerade erst haben sie eine Kassette
(!) mit ihren schönsten Stücken rausgebracht– unter dem Titel „Viel
Potenzial“
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